Eleanor DeFreitas. If a young woman , found guilty of nothing, is to be posthumously branded the worst kind of liar, I want to know how, and why.

Today it was announced that the Department Of Public Prosecution has upheld a decision (instigated in response to a privately brought prosecution by her alleged attacker) by the Crown Prosecution Service to pursue a prosecution of “attempting to pervert the course of justice” vis-a-vis an alleged false accusation of rape , against the late Eleanor DeFreitas, during which time the young woman, suffering from BiPolar disorder and terrified of court, committed suicide.

Naturally, this has met with lively comment regarding justice for rape victims, the falsely accused, and the ever popular trope that “women lie”.
Her supporters, most notably her father , are devastated , and cannot understand why the CPS pursued a case which the police themselves opposed, until they were overruled.

4 – it’s just as likely she would’ve been found innocent, since a lack of evidence works BOTH ways, and she was ill.

5- less than 2% of all rape related prosecutions are for false allegations….and few of those are successful… So not is it statistically unlikely that she lied, but even less likely she would have been convicted. If you don’t believe me on this last point you need to google “Keir Starmer – DPP- false rape allegations.

6 – suicide is not a marker of guilt, even less so when somebody is ill.

7 – there may have been repercussions to an opposite conclusion, vis-a-vis the possibility of a flood of appeals against past convictions for similar, and I can’t imagine the DPP or CPS would’ve countenanced that.

And if a young woman is dead, I want to know why, not just that one group of lawyers, opaquely, agreed with another.

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As a postscript to this whole sordid affair, I will leave the final word to her accuser, Alexander Economou , named by himself in the Daily Mail, who twists the knife in an egregiously sanctimonious manner, by sending his “sympathies” to the family of the girl he , arguably(and not without help) drove to her death , here..

3 thoughts on “Eleanor DeFreitas. If a young woman , found guilty of nothing, is to be posthumously branded the worst kind of liar, I want to know how, and why.”

I don’t think the police believed her. They were probably being diplomatic with the parents. Mr De Freitas actually admitted in the Guardian a few days ago that he has not seen the evidence, which is why he wants the inquest. This recent youtube clip is a recording of the police on the telephone saying they thought she lied. Both CPS and Police say she lied.

They DID believe her. They opposed any action WHATSOEVER against her and refused to co-operate(dispute her accuser’s repeated use of rape myth and slur) until coerced into doing so by the DPP.
Even the head of the Sapphire Unit (the British SVU) released a statement saying she should never have been prosecuted.

Furthermore, I’m not , if the experts don’t, (and they don’t) going to use an alleged victim’s behaviour as proof of anything , either of her or her alleged attacker’s guilt, because- taken in isolation – it’s very hard to discern the context of such behaviours.
Battered wives, for instance, often appear VERY romantically involved with their abuser, and marital rape (commensurately) has been recognised as a crime since 1990 despite such “evidence” of romance and the supposedly tacit consent of marriage.

Finally, I’ve not said whether or not either party is guilty, but one, now dead, has been labeled so, while another- privileged , rich, and far from “ruined” (and unknown since uncharged , before his display of “sympathy) has not only cast themselves in the role of victim, but has had the effrontery to indulge in an obsequious display of “regret” that his “ALLEGED” accuser has died.

If “innocent until proven guilty” is to mean anything(and remember , he was never charged.. So NEVER faced what he laid on her) … then it has to apply to those actually accused , including her.
It HAS to work both ways.